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Staging language on Corsica: Stance, improvisation, play, and heteroglossia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2015

Alexandra Jaffe
Alexandra Jaffe*
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Department of Linguistics, 1250 Bellflower Blvd. California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840, USAajaffe@csulb.edu
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Abstract

This article uses the concept of stance to examine a series of activities and plurilingual heteroglossic performances and improvisations in a Corsican language-planning event. It focuses on how stances taken by performers attribute stances to the audience, as well as how stance objects (language, community, heritage) are construed in performance. This analysis is used to examine how these language-planning events mediate ideological tensions in Corsican language planning, specifically between traditional monolingual/purist ideologies and plurilingual, polynomic ones. (Stance, Corsica, performance, ideology, heteroglossia)*

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Language in Society , Volume 44 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Heteroglossia and performance , April 2015 , pp. 161 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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